After a month of WoW Cataclysm craze, I'm back to playing 'real' games...

I finished all the cop events, the racer events don't really appeal as much to me.

...wait there's a race in NFS that's 70 miles and people think it's long?  The average race in GT5 after level 25 is over 70 miles... 
 
...you could easily finish the 70 mile race in less than an hour with just going at an average of 90 mph.

A couple friends and I did this: 
 
Le Mans 24 Hours 
 
Did about 6 hours shifts each. That said, I probably will never ever ever play any race that takes an hour again. 

I haven't even unlocked that race yet. In fact, I'm pretty sure I haven't even unlocked the Hyper Class yet. I've been taken my time with that game.

I would say it has more to do with surviving the 70 mile race than actually trying it.

. . . or that it's one of the last races you unlock. And that this game's livelihood is its online play. 

Personally, the game's livelihood are its asynchronous score (i.e. time) competitions and novel event set ups. Than again, I'm one of those weird people that does not care much for live competitive online multiplayer. It doesn't help that the PC interface does everything it can in sabotaging efforts in getting a big public group going. Stupid separation of lobbies in to three events and subsequently five speed classes with no way to communicate to other players in the game. 
 
Also, I had a tough time with Seacrest Tour. I had to try three times before I was able to snag the gold. The McLaren F1 was too slow and the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport was too heavy. Thankfully, the Koenigsegg CCRX Edition struck the necessary balance for me to beat the rubber banding AI.

did it, gotta love how it gives like 50k bounty for first place, 

I love it. I'm kinda pissed, that there aren't more really long races. The way the world is built, it'd lend itself to 'PGR-style' make your own races. Too bad that's being done with overpriced DLC packs these days. I'd love to design an actual 1 hour race.
 
About 'surving' a 70 mile race... it ain't a hot pursuit. It's a race. Just don't crash and you'll be fine. Did it twice so far. One second place with like 3 crashes and one first place with one crash at the very end, being a bit to generous with expending my nitrous at all cost.

I just lost interest in the game altogether.

Why do I agree with the fact that most gamers now do have a short attention span? 

I've been doing both cops and racer events at the same time so I haven't gotten to that yet. The fact that it's a Hot pursuit event scares me a bit though

Oh, it's not a Hot Pursuit event. Its the last event for the Racer career and it's a Race event.

Finished all the events and the first DLC pack (Super Sports IIRC), intend to go back eventually. Was top of my autolog for every event but 2 or 3, expect that will have changed when I do eventually go back.